Everyone has a favorite gag cartoon, one that he thinks best epitomizes this ridiculous yet sublime melding of art and amusement. A while ago I made a case for this captionless classic by Chon Day: ...

Everybody's been posting and publishing tributes to the late Joan Rivers, but her cartoon in The New Yorker is pretty much perfect. It shows the comedienne at the pearly gates, but as usual, she isn't ...

My column about the perfect cartoon, not surprisingly, brought forth many other candidates, as well as some debate over my choice of Chon Day’s captionless 1946 drawing. On newyorker.com, ...

One of the best animated movies was adapted from a 1978 children’s book about a town where food falls from the sky. In the cartoon movie version, a young scientist invents a machine that causes clouds ...

Can’t you see it now: you wake up to the sound of an alarm or a parent’s tap on the shoulder, yawn, tumble out of bed (crust at the corners of your eyes), and head to the living room to turn on your ...

Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto is now celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the anime adaptation’s original debut, but the franchise has gone to a whole new level with a cartoon makeover that’s gone viral ...